(while preparing
the NRC with deadline was more important than ensuring legal clarity over
citizenship?)

The
judicial angle:

Feb
2017:

The Manowara v/s Union of India case

The Guwahati high court declared that certificates
issued by the Gram panchayat couldn’t be relied on by the residents to seek
inclusion in NRC.

Dec
2017:

The Supreme Court (SC) opined that the
certificates by Panchayat could be relied upon, provided, documents themselves
had been approved in court.

Thus the matter was unsettled and each
person will now have to prove his linkages before a forum.

Immediate
consequence of the no inclusion:

1.Lose right to vote

2.New problem of sudden loss of Indian
citizenship with no recourse of in sight.

3.If people are unable to prove
their Indian citizenship, what will the SC direct the government to do?

a.To push them out?

b.To wash the hands offthe issue.

Fodder
points:

Views of eminent personalities about
citizen ship.

1.BR. Ambedkar with respect to
provision relating to citizenship in constitution said that it caused the
Drafting Committee the most headache .Multiple drafts were worked
,rejected. Finally article 5 was inserted.

2.Sardar Valla Bhai Patel opined
that India’s constitution making process and citizenship clause as going to be
scrutinised all over the world.

3.Niraja Gopal an expert said
that the scrutiny was probably because the Indian Nationalism during freedom
struggle had not attempted to define itself on exclusive racial or ethnic basis.

Conclusion:

70 years later, Indian
approach to citizenship is once again going to be scrutinised by world.

Article
2 :Oxytocin

Why
in news?

Union Health Ministry’s ban on retail sale
and private manufacturing of oxytocin (from September
1st).Government plans to allow a single public sector unit to
manufacture the drug.